Senior devs love vibe coding because they have the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors. They hate it because it makes morons think they don’t need the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors.

Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.

What a fun comment to get in your inbox on an old comment thread. I got to play a little rendition of “How many awful things have I said?” while I waited for the link to open.

I am surprised to find this particular rant. I thought the take was relatively benign if you actually absorb what I’m saying. At first glance, though, maybe you think I’m promoting drugs?

4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.

How much privacy for children can you buy back with the $30 million?

Wait, I thought that was a meme.

Sure, and I recognize that it’s not a great metaphor. But I’m thinking about it from the developer side. Open Source software is not motivated by profits, and profit motivates a lot of developers. Some of the best software projects were actualized by a few committed individuals who were passionate about the purpose. But then you have Microsoft which tries to tie bonuses to lines of code, and ends up with bloated garbage because peoples is peoples.

Open source is good, in the same way free lunches for school children are good. The benefits are innumerable. But it’s not feasible to expect every developer to commit to open source projects when their efforts might not be rewarded.

It’s not a perfect metaphor.

“I only eat food that’s free.”

I fully support open source software, but it’s not feasible under the current economic system to expect everyone to exclusively contribute to open source projects.

But then how can you create an artificial divide and pit one generation against another?

Or, he has some inside information that the Intel CEO is going to resign and wants to pretend he has that kind of power.

RAID is carrying a spare tire in your car. Backups are like having an extra car in the garage in case your primary geta totaled.

It’s possible you’ll never need either one, but if you pop a flat, a whole extra car is overkill.

It’s not a perfect metaphor, since most people don’t have a spare car.

This is a valid question, but it’s hard to answer because it depends on the security of your own network. Tailscale creates a secure tunnel directly into your home network, but if your home network is compromised then it’s not secure.

Could Tailscale be compromised? I think it would be difficult but not impossible. It’s safe enough for personal use, certainly, but I wouldn’t use it to protect state secrets.

And if you have it on your phone, and someone gets access to your phone, then they can access your home network. How secure is your phone? Do you use biometrics or a password keeper? Do you leave your laptop unlocked?

Security is a mixed topic, and it’s impossible to pull one thread from the sweater without unraveling the whole thing. Sometimes the illusion of security is as effective as actually being secure, and sometimes it isn’t at all.

Both fair concerns. Plus then your server must always be on.

Can you stream from your pc? I set up Jellyfin and Tailscale, and all my music (and movies and tv shows) are on my computer, accessible from anywhere.

If software is a service, then service can be denied at any time. Host your own infrastructure, and reclaim digital ownership.

That goes for large businesses and individuals.

Statistically, the most popular restaurant in America is Wendy’s (excluding dessert and donut shops). Wendy’s is pretty good for fast food, but it’s objectively not high quality food. That’s not to say people shouldn’t enjoy it, but if you’re learning to be a chef, you’re probably not aspiring to mass produce baconators.

I’ve read two Dan Brown books (Angels and Demons and DaVinci Code). I’ve read 8 Rowling books.

My criticism of Dan Brown would be that he wrote one book and then wrote it again. It’s not great literature, but it’s easy to read and doesn’t strain the mind with complexity. I understand that he’s written four more novels, but I haven’t read them. I have heard people say that it’s the same formula, and if you enjoy it, there’s no judgement here. Reading should be fun and exactly as challenging as you want it to be.

Dan Brown also made absurd amounts of money. Do you know what he thinks about trans rights? No, you don’t, because he doesn’t use his position of relative privilege to be a shitbag to minorities. Maybe he’s a bigot, but I wouldn’t assume that of anyone without evidence. Dan Brown created a series of popular books and then fucked off to cheat on his wife. That’s all we know about him.

Rowling, by contrast, is a garbage human being. She’s actively awful, and goes out of her way to stir shit up and make life miserable for people she doesn’t know and will never meet. She is a bigot, and isn’t shy about spreading hateful propaganda or punching down. Being a bad writer is the very least of her flaws, but it is among her flaws. When people compare her to other artists who have created masterpieces but had “problematic” personal lives, the comparison is distorted by both the lack of quality to her art and the magnitude of her shittiness as a human. Even if you can separate the art from the artist, it’s like picking the solid shit nuggets from a massive steaming pile of diarrhea.

She’s a terrible writer. She has no original or clever ideas, her imagery is boring and vague, and her characters are one dimensional at most. The Robert Galbraith book that I read was really bad, too, and the television offer came after she revealed that it was hers. Fucking Cormoran Strike? What the fuck kind of hacky bullshit name is that? She’s a dipshit, which is nothing compared to the fact that she’s a hateful bigot.

I never read Divergent, but I’m sure there are worse books. And I enjoy plenty of books that aren’t well written. I enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series, the same way I enjoy a fast food burger and milkshake. It always bugged me that everyone kept praising Rowling for what an amazing writer she was, but I never cared to criticize her because kids were reading and she seemed to be a genuinely decent person.

Now we know she’s a hateful bigot, and her shitty writing is providing the funding for her to attempt to oppress people and generally be horrible. So no reason to keep pretending she’s not a hack writer.

My general complaint is that there really isn’t any nuance to any of the characters in the books. If you’re thinking of complexity, you’re probably thinking about the performances created by various excellent actors in the movies.

Also, none of the twists are executed well, as they are either deus ex rectum or they are telegraphed to the point where you don’t even realize they were supposed to be twists.

There’s no internal consistency within or between books. Macguffins come and go to serve the story, and every story is just repackaged public domain mythology.

Actually, the fan theory that all of it is the delusion of a mistreated orphan boy does tie several things together. The entire arc reads like the fantasies of a sad, lonely kid playing with a stick in his room by himself.